Posted on 06/12/2003 6:32:16 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
On Monday (June 9), The SmokingGun.com uncovered a shady secret in "For Love or Money" star Rob Campos' past, and by Tuesday he was out of a job.
TSG revealed that while in a Navy JAG training program, Campos got drunk, stormed into a fellow trainee's room and groped her breasts. The incident led to his removal from the military legal course, despite the fact that both his official NBC biography and the one on his law firm's Web site refer to his JAG Corps experience.
The investigation was handled by Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents and no public charges were filed, preventing NBC investigators from uncovering the information in a routine background check. Campos didn't volunteer the information, which might have altered his selection for the reality dating show in which the woman who wins his heart will have to choose between love and a million-dollar prize.
While Campos apologized for failing to mention the incident, he explained that he believed it to be a private matter.
Now that the scandal has gone public, though, Campos' Dallas-based law firm, Mathur Law Offices, P.C., wants no part of the publicity. In a statement posted on the firm's Web site on Tuesday, Sanjay S. Mathur explains why Campos was let go.
Mathur is quick to explain that Campos only worked for the firm as an independent contractor with "Associate Attorney" duties and that only a basic criminal record background check was performed before hiring him.
"Since Mr. Campos has never been a formal 'employee' of this firm, the firm simply will cease any additional work and we have asked him to vacate his office space," the statement says.
The firm's decision was based on both the new information and on Campos' behavior on "For Love or Money." In Tuesday night's episode, the series' second, Campos got drunk and had Jacuzzi-centric revelry with 10 women that one of the participants described as "disgusting."
"What is of greatest significance to us is that our firm vigorously enforces the rights of individuals, many of them minorities, many of them foreign to this country and many of them women," Mathur's statement says. "We do not wish to allow any possibility of our practice of law being perceived as unsympathetic to the causes we strive so hard to protect."
In a statement released Wednesday through NBC, Campos said: "I was never an employee of the Mathur law firm; I worked with them as an independent contractor. I rented space at their office in Dallas and did not receive a salary. I also maintained my own set of clients. Although I will no longer be associated with that firm, I do plan to continue in the private practice of law."
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NBC was standing by its man Monday, despite a report that the bachelor star of its new dating game had been expelled from a military program.
JUNE 11--The SmokingGun reported: A Boston man facing a domestic violence charge was cast anyway by MTV in the network's current "Road Rules" series, The Smoking Gun has learned. Donnell Langham, 21, was arrested last July for assault and battery after allegedly striking his teenage girlfriend and throwing her to the ground and dragging her several feet... Langham said he told "Road Rules" producers that he had a rap sheet and that, "they said nothing." Along with the July 2002 bust, Langham had one other pre-MTV arrest.
In April, weeks after filming ended and Langham returned to Massachusetts, he was again arrested for assaulting Soper as well as violating the July 2002 protection order.... Langham was tabbed for the 12th installment of MTV's popular "Road Rules" show, which was lensed this spring in the South Pacific and had its network premiere on May 26.
On Monday night's show Campos entered the hot tub portion of a pool with about eight women. While these women proceded to talk to him and frolic, they one by one got p.o.'d that hey wasn't just doing it with them. And the action they showed was just him holding them and stuff, nothing overboard at all.
Back in the house, these women blistered him behind his back, acting as vicious as women can. It was really shocking to see them act this way. What made it more shocking was that the same women who swore they "were now only in it for the money no matter what" did an immediate about face the next morning when he simply asked them to forgive him. For what I'm not actually sure. No insider information was really provided for all the animosity. After the forgiveness, all the women swooned that he was such a great guy.
That he was fired from his business affiliation is rather distrubing on the face of it.
My guess is that NBC was fully aware of all this before his program aired. The turmoil is simply a convenient way to get this program before more of the viewing audience. It sure worked on this forum. We're talking about something that really isn't as cut and dried as it should be, for all the action taken against this guy.
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Not what I usually post..played with this one. ;)
How come there is no mention in the major press that our former President is quite possibly a rapist?
FOX-Hannity did so.
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